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The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Russia is building a closer alliance with the world's autocracies – the west should beware

Russia is planning to buy “millions” of Soviet-era weapons from North Korea, a recent US intelligence report revealed. Britain’s defence intelligence has also confirmed that Russia is already using Iranian-made drones in Ukraine.

The Conversation

Cease-fire continues to hold between Armenia, Azerbaijan

A cease-fire between Armenia and Azerbaijan has held for a second straight day, halting an outburst of fighting that killed more than 200 troops from both sides

The Independent UK

Martin Schram: Did Xi just learn from Putin?

This was not the way Russia’s Vladimir Putin wanted to look, for all the world to see on Thursday, when he walked into the massive and bizarrely flowered and leafy conference room in Uzbekistan for his much-needed meeting with a deep-pocketed counterpart, China’s Xi Jinping.

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Commentary: A weakened Putin is no use to Russia

As Ukrainian troops probe Russian defenses along the entire front and only the Wagner Group mercenaries continue a small-scale offensive operation in the Donetsk region, the initiative in the Russo-Ukrainian war is firmly in the hands of the invaded, not the invader. While that can still change, perhaps more than…

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Russia's Putin says SCO should stage major sporting event

Russian President Vladimir Putin told a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Friday that the group should consider staging its own major sporting competition.

Reuters

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Russian officials turn to booze over Vladimir Putin's disastrous Ukraine war

Russian President Vladimir Putin has had to warn some of his advisers about excessive drinking. With Ukraine's counteroffensive developing, some in the Kremlin have turned to the bottle

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Commentary: Punishing Russians won’t end the Ukraine war

So far, economic sanctions on Russia have done nothing to halt Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. The ruble is still strong. Oil prices are high. Before Ukraine’s latest advances on the battlefield, polls showed that 75% of Russians still supported the war (in public at any rate).

Tribune News Service

SCO should try to create resilient supply chain in our region, says PM Modi

Better connectivity and giving transit rights is key to creating a better supply chain, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the SCO Summit

The Hindu

India's Modi assails Putin over Ukraine war

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that now was not the time for war, directly assailing the Kremlin chief in public over the nearly seven-month-long conflict in Ukraine.

Reuters

Armenia's PM holds calls with Putin, Macron, Blinken on border clashes with Azerbaijan

Russia's President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Friday to discuss this week's clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Armenian government said in a statement.

Reuters

Putin, Xi Hail 'Great Power' Ties at Talks Defying West

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met for their first face-to-face talks since the start of the conflict in Ukraine on Thursday, hailing their strategic ties in defiance of the West. Sitting across from each other at two long rounded tables and flanked by aides, the two…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Volodymyr Zelensky's wife 'to represent Ukraine at the Queen's funeral'

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky's wife Olena reportedly will represent the country at the Queen's funeral on Monday and she will join the 500 leaders and dignitaries present

Daily Mirror

Russia and China pledge to be counterweight to US 'dominance'

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have met for their first face-to-face talks since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, hailing their strategic ties in defiance of the West.

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China's Xi skips dinner with Putin, allies as COVID precaution -source

Chinese leader Xi Jinping stayed away from a dinner attended by 11 heads of states at a regional security summit in line with his delegation's COVID-19 policy, a source in the Uzbek government told Reuters on Friday.

The Independent UK

China's top legislator to meet S. Korea leaders for talks

China’s top legislator is to meet South Korean leaders including new President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul, as Yoon’s push to buttress a military alliance with Washington has caused concerns that it could hamper Seoul’s ties with Beijing

Daily Mirror

Russia calls Vladimir Putin snub for Queen's funeral 'immoral' and 'blasphemous'

Global leaders are set to descend on London on Monday for the Queen's funeral but there will be no Russian representation due to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine

France 24

Ukraine combs mass burial site in Izium, says signs of torture found

Bodies exhumed from a mass burial site near the easter Ukrainian town of Izium "showed signs of violent death", a Ukrainian official said on Friday in what President Volodymyr Zelensky called proof of war crimes by Russian forces. The discovery came as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi put pressure on…

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Hardened Russian prisoners offered freedom for six months fighting in Ukraine

The leader of infamous Wagner group, who has close ties with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, has been filmed telling hardened criminals that if they join the fight in Ukraine they could be freed after six months

Tribune News Service

Putin acknowledges Xi’s ‘concerns’ on Ukraine, showing tension

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Chinese leader Xi Jinping he understands Beijing’s “questions and concerns” about his invasion of Ukraine, a rare admission of tensions between the diplomatic allies.

Chicago Sun-Times

GOP’s Putin apologists are a disgrace

These supposed conservatives are strangers to the most important themes of traditional conservatism. They dishonor the name. Conservatism was a worldview intimately bound up with opposition to tyranny.

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 205 of the invasion

Mass burial site with 440 bodies found in recaptured Izium; Ukraine strikes occupied Kherson, damaging pro-Russia administration buildings

Reuters

Ukraine says some bodies found in mass burial site had been bound

Some bodies found in a mass burial site in northeastern Ukraine in territory recaptured from Russian forces were found with their hands tied behind their backs, the governor of Ukraine's Kharkiv province said on Friday.

ABC News

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Xi Jinping travels out of China to see Putin and other leaders. Here's why it matters

The leaders of China and Russia have joined other foreign leaders in Central Asia. Top concerns include Russia's war in Ukraine.

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